Faculty Advisor

Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor

BA, University of New Mexico

MA, University of New Mexico, with distinction

MFA, Naropa University

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce has taught courses in poetry, creative nonfiction, and pedagogy at Sakuragaoka koko in Yokohama, the University of New Mexico, Bard College, and Naropa University. She is the author of seven titles, including Beloved Integer and She, A Blueprint with art by Sue Hammond West. Her book Continuous Frieze Bordering Red, awarded the 2010–2011 Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, documents the migratory patterns of an Other: the hybrid as she travels between countries, languages, identities, and shades of Rothko's red. Pierce is the director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.